Dr Inge van der Putten, Ph.D. (I.M.)
Inge van der Putten is assistant professor at Maastricht University. Her research within the research school of CAPHRI focusses on evidence-informed decision making, health economics, public health and vaccines. She is involved as a teacher in the master Healthcare Policy Innovation and Management, member of the Educational Committee Health and member of the taskforce student employability at FHML.
Inge (borg Maria) van der Putten was born on May 31, 1989 in Den Dungen, the Netherlands. After completing the Atheneum at the Sint-JansLyceum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, she started her study in Health Sciences in 2007 at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. During her bachelor’s programme she studied the specializations ‘Policy and Management’, ‘Health Education and Promotion’ and ‘Health Law’. In the second year of her bachelor’s programme, she was accepted into the ‘International Health’ honours programme. She obtained two master’s degrees, in Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management (2012) and in Global Health (2012), respectively. During her master’s programme, she followed courses at McMaster University (Canada), conducted fieldwork in India and completed an internship at the World Health Organization (in Geneva, Switzerland), looking at the broader economic impact of vaccines.
After obtaining a Kootstra Fellowship grant in 2013, she started her PhD on a part-time basis at the Department of Health Services Research at Maastricht University. This department is part of the Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI) of Maastricht University. During her PhD, she continued her work on the broader economic impact of vaccines in collaboration with the World Health Organization. She combined her PhD with a job as a Project Employee in ‘Excellente Zorg’ (Excellent Care) at the Dutch Nurses Association and, at a later stage, as a teacher at the Department of Health Services Research. She was involved as a tutor, trainer, lecturer, thesis supervisor, planning group member and course coordinator in various bachelor and master’s programmes. These included the master’s programme on Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management, the master’s programme Global Health, the bachelor’s programme in Health Sciences, the bachelor’s programme in European Public Health and the bachelor’s programme at University College Maastricht. In 2016, she also obtained her basic teaching qualification at Maastricht University.
Inge has participated in and presented her research at several national and international seminars, expert meetings and conferences. She is member of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and the professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and was involved as a board member and chair for the ISPOR Student Chapter. She also obtained a scholarship from the global scholarship programme for research excellence from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015, which provided the opportunity for her to work for 3 months in the Pediatric Department of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.
She is currently working as an assistant professor and researcher at the Department of Health Services Research. She continues to work on her research projects and fulfills various teaching roles, including thesis coordinator for the master programme Healthcare Innovation and Management, member of the educational committee Health, member of the taskforce student employability FHML.
